Paul Neary, a longtime DC and Marvel comic book artist, perhaps best known for his collaborations with iconic fellow British artists like Alan Davis and Bryan Hitch, and also the Editor-in-Chief of Marvel UK on two separate occasions (including a legendary boom period in the early 1990s), has passed away at the age of 74 from a long illness.Neary first broke into comics in the early 1970s at Warren Publishing’s famous black and white horror comic book magazines, Eerie, Creepy, and Vampirella. Working primarily on Eerie, Neary drew stories for the series regularly for about four years from 1972-76. In the late 1970s, Dez Skinn became the Editor-in-Chief of Marvel UK, and while the company was mostly known for reprinting American comics at the time, Skinn was given the freedom to do a lot more brand-new material using British creators (previous Editors-in-Chief, most notably Neil Tennant, had slowly begun to work in original material, as well, like the original Captain Britian series, but this was still a major shift). Neary was one of the key artists at this new version of Marvel UK, drawing the Hulk weekly series that launched to tie-in with the then-popular Incredible Hulk TV series.Neary would then hire Alan Moore to write Captain Britain, giving Moore one of his earliest regular comic book writing assignments. Neary drew an awesome cover for the launch of Daredevils, the series that Moore and Davis would work together on Captain Britain (the series was meant to tie-in with reprints of Frank Miller’s iconic Daredevil run, hence Neary using a Miller-esque style for the cover)…
Paul Neary, a longtime DC and Marvel comic book artist, perhaps best known for his collaborations with iconic fellow British artists like Alan Davis and Bryan Hitch, and also the Editor-in-Chief of Marvel UK on two separate occasions (including a legendary boom period in the early 1990s), has passed away at the age of 74 from a long illness.
Neary first broke into comics in the early 1970s at Warren Publishing’s famous black and white horror comic book magazines, Eerie, Creepy, and Vampirella. Working primarily on Eerie, Neary drew stories for the series regularly for about four years from 1972-76. In the late 1970s, Dez Skinn became the Editor-in-Chief of Marvel UK, and while the company was mostly known for reprinting American comics at the time, Skinn was given the freedom to do a lot more brand-new material using British creators (previous Editors-in-Chief, most notably Neil Tennant, had slowly begun to work in original material, as well, like the original Captain Britian series, but this was still a major shift). Neary was one of the key artists at this new version of Marvel UK, drawing the Hulk weekly series that launched to tie-in with the then-popular Incredible Hulk TV series.
Neary would then hire Alan Moore to write Captain Britain, giving Moore one of his earliest regular comic book writing assignments. Neary drew an awesome cover for the launch of Daredevils, the series that Moore and Davis would work together on Captain Britain (the series was meant to tie-in with reprints of Frank Miller’s iconic Daredevil run, hence Neary using a Miller-esque style for the cover)…
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